Archive for November, 2006

Sometimes I Fantasize about Being Chef Torres’ Sous Chef

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Hooray for chocolate molds and many years of watching Dessert Circus and Jacques Torres working chocolate a million different ways.

Thanksgiving Chicken

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

I have decided that my creative outlet for managing stress is cooking. Cooking, when done properly, seems to take away a lot of other worries and allows me to meditate.Since Thanksgiving at home this year was a small crowd (just my parents and me; my brother stayed at school to ...

Catering a Reception

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

I'm in this club at school that does concerts and I always feel that food and music are very much correlated. After a concert, we always have a reception for our guests. So what do you do when the club only has a limited amount of money and you have a ...

My Oxen Did Not Die on Oregon Chai…

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

The reference, of course, to Oregon Trail. (I can't begin to tell you how many times I had typhoid, low food supplies and risked drowning by not caulking my raft when fording the river...) If you're still wondering if I really do have oxen in the city...no. None at all.So ...